heart attack victim

news footage: christchurch in ruins as theground crumbles beneath the cityã– scenes of chaos anddestructionã–. stunned survivors pulled from the rubbleã– and a nation in shock as thedeath toll growsã–. we have to be more understanding and more supportive than ever asthe reality of the trauma reallyã– a student volunteer army has gathered in the city tohelp those less fortunate than themselves.

heart attack victim, hundreds have been helping shovel silt andsand from around the city... organiser and law student sam johnson hasnã­t had a decentsleep in daysã– ã¬you need to use the hand sanitiser, itã­s vitalã®ã– safety is paramountand he believes the crew is in for the long hallã–locals whose lives have been thrown into

turmoil are heartened by the armyã­s accomplishmentsand by this hard evidence that people care and want to help... basicallyit has been incredible, people have banned together and we have just managed to swoopthrough areas and totally clean them up. weã­re here to help and we will continue tohelp throughout the time i hope. simon duncan: we have been operating for 27years and have never seen a day like the 22nd offebruaryã– there were a number of things we did on that first day in particular, thingswe hope we never have to repeat.dave saunders: i got a text call from my wife saying come home, christchurch is fallingapart. so, it was a

rapid trip and we were the only car comingin to christchurch, everybody else was going out.paul merrett: one of my vivid memories was on day two of the operation was taking a heartattack victim from parklands to the hospital andgoing down qe2 drive on my side of the road and being passed by an army lav and an ambulanceon my side of the roadã– and i mentioned to my college that in 23 years ofpolicing i had never ever seen anything like that before.simon duncan: we were having to make some fairly nasty decisions about the types ofpeople that were able to be saved and having to leave peoplebehind that we believed wouldnã­t make it.

and itã­s not a very nice feeling trying toplay god and make those decisions and itã­s anunfortunate part of what we had to do. josie ma: we actually resuscitated a ladyjust down the road and she survived which is really goodnews. andy miller: the right people seemed to cometo the surface and we managed to get a huge distribution centre up and running which onlyfour or five days post-earthquake was servicing up to 2,000 people a day with basicgroceries and especially fresh water, fresh drinking water.clive nicolson: today we put together care packs which we delivered to folks around theirhomes and

westpac provided a lot of the volunteer staffto put those togetherã– that was incredible, itwas great. andy miller: out of the, i think, at one stage650 volunteers that we had established with the centre,part of those people were going out and removing silt and helping people makeemergency repairs to their homes. itã­s actually the action teams that have continued tohappenã– even this week. sam johnson: itã­s very similar to what hashappened over in queensland and your incredible volunteerarmy that you had thereã– and i think all the lessons learned from volunteeringcommunities worldwide is something i think

we need to collaborate on and really pulltogether to develop a model of our mass volunteering particularly in disaster zones.paul merrett: if unfortunately we have another incident of that type, iã­m sure we will bewell prepared because of all the relationships that we havewith the community groups.